Franco Fontana
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ArtistItalian, born 1933
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Untitled
  • Baia delle Zagare, Italy
Date1970, printed 1980
PlaceZagare, Italy
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (34.3 × 22.2 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 9 7/16 in. (36 × 24 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.618
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Landscape photographer Franco Fontana broke with tradition by creating his works in color and by reducing geographical features before his lens to abstract geometric planes. At a time when other photographers clung to the sanctity of perfectly exposed and legible black-and-white landscapes, Fontana created colorful, complex visual puzzles. “Photography should not reproduce the visible,” he notes. “It should make the invisible visible.”



ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left below image in ink "43/100"
[verso inaccessible]
Signed in ink, recto, bottom right below image: Franco Fontana ' 80

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